SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – An inmate of the S.D. State Penitentiary has been found dead, according to a press release from the South Dakota DOC.
According to a press release from the South Dakota DOC, 36-year-old Leo Plenty Arrows died on Friday from an apparent suicide.
Plenty Arrows was found unresponsive in his cell at the Jameson Annex, he was later pronounced dead at a Sioux Falls hospital.
Plenty Arrows was serving a sentence for simple assault on law enforcement from Pennington County.
This marks the sixth inmate death of 2025, according to data from the S.D. DOC.